Neil Young Quotes

When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

- Neil Young

Young, Going, Pass, Stimulated

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

- Neil Young

Rock, About, Type, Hard Rock

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

- Neil Young

Nature, Source, Part, Realizing

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

- Neil Young

Think, Another, Part, Thorn

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

- Neil Young

Nature, Earth, Flower

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

- Neil Young

Young, Away, Lot, Naive

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

- Neil Young

Burn, Better, Away, Fade

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

- Neil Young

Think, Some, Presidents, Supporting

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

- Neil Young

Song, Than, Arrange, Mix

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

- Neil Young

Music, Generation, Times, Bind

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

- Neil Young

Exception, Records, Rush, Vocals

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

- Neil Young

Never, Bob, Dylan, None

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

- Neil Young

New, Take, Feature, Fresh

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

- Neil Young

Think, Country, Making, Down-Home

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

- Neil Young

Song, Like, Wrote, One Day At A Time

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

- Neil Young

Mistake, Like, Before, Labeling

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

- Neil Young

Think, Finger, I Think, Key

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

- Neil Young

Think, Line, Come, Something Good

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

- Neil Young

Music, Very, Commitments, Annoying

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

- Neil Young

Go, Through, See, Peaks

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

- Neil Young

Some, Going, Period, Relinquish

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

- Neil Young

Music, About, Thing, No Point

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

- Neil Young

Think, Other, I Think, Planets

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

- Neil Young

Want, Roll, Fed, Fed Up

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

- Neil Young

Asking, Over, Same Thing, Close

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

- Neil Young

Music, Me, Jazz, Urgency

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

- Neil Young

Like, Last, Rug, Five

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

- Neil Young

Blue, Pretending, Album, Blues

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

- Neil Young

Commercial, Sell, Images, Closed

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

- Neil Young

Some, Could, Reagan, Some People

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

- Neil Young

Country, Through, Which, Civil Rights

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

- Neil Young

Other, Before, Smaller, Older

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

- Neil Young

People, Friends, Got, Pins

Live music is better.

- Neil Young

Music, Live, Better, Live Music

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

- Neil Young

Stop, Along, Until, Jump

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

- Neil Young

Doing, Country, Expected, Troops

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

- Neil Young

Space, Universe, Now, Satellites

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

- Neil Young

Kind, Thing, Judgmental

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

- Neil Young

Play, Basement, Studios, Club

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

- Neil Young

American, Like, Particularly, Fox

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

- Neil Young

Real, About, Many, Opinions

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

- Neil Young

Broken, Old, Wrote, Arrow

Rock and roll is here to stay.

- Neil Young

Rock And Roll, Rock, Here, Stay

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

- Neil Young

Cool, Places, Working People, Working

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

- Neil Young

Big, Natural, Some, Gliding

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

- Neil Young

Rock, Edge, Rock N Roll, Matters

I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

- Neil Young

Think, Next, One Day, Relates

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

- Neil Young

Think, I Think, Which, Administration

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

- Neil Young

Work, Other, Would, Totally

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

- Neil Young

Doing, Two, Started, Explore

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